Norman McLaren Quotes

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.

Novelty even is useful if a general opinion prevails that the old way is bad.

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

I like change, and I like being in the middle of change.

There was concern whether SCI FI would want the show back with all the recent changes. But now, the changes have made it feel fresh, like starting over.

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.

I really felt it was time for a new vision.

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

We need to look to the future. You can't come up with new things unless you constantly forget the past. There's no reason to keep wearing the same pair of pants.

If you don't have a real stake in the new, then just surviving on the old - even if it is about efficiency - I don't think is a long-term game.

I'm interested in what's new. I'm interested in change. I'm interested in a different game in life.

I think in all cultural organizations there has to be renewal. I'm also of a certain age that someone new can come in with a breath of fresh air. Things change, and I think that's important.

We live in a changing world … shall we maintain all our theaters in the same traditional box.

We are out to rebuild the world.

Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.

There's always a way to say something that could seem really commonplace and make it special again.

Fresh blood is always good.

We shouldn't repeat the same for ages on end, but look into the new as well.

What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.

Being the new guy's always great because you get to go in fresh with your own choices and you get to bring new life and breath and a new energy into something that's already established.

The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind of grief. Is it that they are born again And we grow old? No, they die too. Their yearly trick of looking new Is written down in rings of grain. Yet still the unresting castles thresh In fullgrown thickness every May. Last year is dead, they seem to say, Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.

Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.

It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.